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Iran Hangs 3 Men Held in Bombing of Mosque

TEHRAN — Iran hanged three men on Saturday morning who were accused of being involved in a mosque bombing that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Two others were arrested and are being questioned in connection with the bombing, which took place Thursday in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the news agency said.

The Zahedan prosecutor, Muhammad Marzieh, said the three men were convicted of importing explosives from neighboring countries, taking two hostages in Zahedan, and taking part in a separate bombing against the security forces and the Revolutionary Guards a year ago, the INSA news agency reported.

“They said that they had eight other terrorist operations which they could no longer carry out because of their arrest,” Mr. Marzieh said.

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A Sunni militant group called Jundullah, meaning God’s Brigade, took responsibility for the attack on its Web site and said it was a suicide bombing.

It also said in a statement on its Web site on Saturday that the three men who were executed had no involvement in the bombing.

Iran says the group is a terrorist organization linked to Al Qaeda and backed by the United States. Iran is a predominantly Shiite country but a large number of Sunni Muslims live in the south, including in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, where Zahedan is the provincial capital.

Jundullah has waged an insurgency in Sistan-Baluchistan for several years and says the Sunnis in the region suffer from persecution by the central government.

The group killed some 21 members of the security forces on a highway outside Zahedan in 2006.

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